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We commemorate the victims of the
counterrevolution
and
we honor all heroic fighters,
who defended communism in Hungary
against fascism and social fascism.
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Long live the communist Hungary
in a
Communist world!
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ENVER HOXHA
On the Counter-Revolution in Hungary - 1956
- collection of texts -
History of the PLA
excerpt from pages 307 - 309
(second edition)
The peoples of the socialist countries and the revolutionary forces all over the world were greatly alarmed about the fate of socialism in Hungary. Soviet troops were stationed in the People’s Republic of Hungary, but the Khrushchev group hesitated to send them into action. Only in the face of the great pressure from below and, especially when it saw that Hungary was slipping out of the sphere of its influence, was it finally obliged to permit the Soviet Army to suppress the armed counter-revolution. This counter-revolution was crushed.
The Hungarian counter-revolution was the offspring of revisionism, supported by the imperialists. The Yugoslav revisionists, the most ardent supporters of the Hungarian revisionists, flew their flags at half mast when it failed. Tito termed it «a people’s uprising» which was suppressed by «a savage and impermissible intervention». Imre Nagy, the head of the counter-revolution, found refuge at the Yugoslav Embassy in Budapest.
After the defeat of the counter-revolution, the Soviet leadership, which was no less to blame than the Tito clique for its preparation, tried in every way to cover the traces of its grave responsibility. It sacrificed Imre Nagy, whom it had itself placed at the head of the Hungarian state. Unlike the Titoites, it was obliged to call the uprising «counter-revolutionary», as it was in fact. However, it blamed the «dogmatists» and not those who really were to blame — the revisionists, for bringing about the counter-revolution.
The worst of it was that the Hungarian armed counterrevolution was suppressed by counterrevolutionaries who restored capitalism, but in more camouflaged forms, as the
Khrushchevite revisionists had done in their country, deceiving the revolutionary Hungarian working people.
The PLA expressed its unreserved solidarity with the revolutionary working people of Hungary and aroused the entire Albanian people to assist them with every means. Through «Zëri i popullit» it declared:
